Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-06-19
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A class Of I4s men 10 sson 70 graduate
from Yale. Like lis predecessors u .
the s.bess class By far tkat ever sfeppso
fron beneath the elms-n Is - very high
in scholarship, literary work and ath
lesies in all its branches. and. above all.
il is composed Of most excellent yonne
men-ths bet in the land MF. q. e
Hill, the class statisiician, = Just about
20 publish the most Interesting class
book evsr sttenpted BY aay under
graduate. From its advance sheets the
folloging facts Of interess aboat col
le9e students viii Be welcome 70 the
/ public:
Among Other thiaes, stadents learn 20
smoke while IN college, for IN tbs case
Of the crescent class only IS per cent
Smoked on entrance. and noE 81 per
cent smoke. though some OF these are
not habit0ai smokers. Daring the four
years pilgrimage, forty mea have
dropped from the class roll, and z
g0odly RumbeE OF these we're dropped
bscaase of inability 20 toe the line. The
average age Of shs class Is y years and
3 months, which makes it the Oldest
class which has graduated from Yale IN
4
the class Is thirty years and IL months,
the youngest 10 years aud s months.
/ Three men we're born the same day.
The average height Of the class 10 5 feet
1 ~ inches. The tAllset msa Is s feet
2k inches, the shortest feet l inch.
SIX men are over SIX feet. be aver
sge weight is l52 pounds, and the
heaviest man is A. B. Ooxes Of New
York. who weighs 2S5 poands. Tee
liRhtsst mxn weighs 10l poaads. Eighty
seven 10 the heaviest class for twenty
ysare. The average sixs Of has is q, Of
she's Is, cellar 1884 The largest she G
worn by any member is No. ~, and col
lar TX.
The average expsnse during FRESH
man year was $634.93, Of S1phmore
year 1881 81, OF Junior year 1893 SO,
aad of Senior year $9IS.28. Three men
spent less than $3.50 year, seF zen less
than $40. aud fifteen less than $500.
Fifteen men have spent s 800 esch
year, which 10 the maximum. In Fresh
man yer most soen roomed in private
houses; in Senior year only nine roomed
outside the college dsrmitoFies, showing
q decided preference OF college life as
enjoyed in the ''Old Brick Rowe"
t"EaFnam," "Durfee" and lawrence
The average price paid for board has
been 1928; the highest paid, IS. One
man claims to have boarded week fer
the small expenditure Of 80 cents. Con-
cerninp New Haven board. one save IL
il worthy the motto, "Nogi taagsrs me,
imDaRe ldcessit." Another says, Land.
ladies' grow fat and students eat at
MorR's" a restaurant where students
lunehl, and another, "lt varies from
passive, irnocuous mouotony TO active.
Injurious infamy." The majority Of the
GLASS, however, assert that they have got
along very well With 1t.
Before entering college forty-four
men were engaged in lucrative employ
ment for periods varying from twelve
years to thres days, the latter being a
man who undertook to black bis broth
eE's boots and care for bis unole's far
mace. All claim they were actually earn
ing q living, though Ims were actually
lesiae money, as for example: One man
raised fancy chickens for market
and made $50, Though at an expendi-
ture OF $500 plus the expenses Of the
gardeners services" The highest man
John Bennetto-was engaged as q
printer seven and one-half yeaFs, and
paid his expenses 10 college by working
nights in New Haven printing offioe.
One man says he learned hymns az 10
cents each Thirty-six men have paid
part OF their college expenses by their
own efforts. Five have paid their whole
expenses. Tutoring" has been the
common work. Twelve have waited on
table.
The most popular book is David
COpperie d" tbs second Henry Es-
mOnd," the third ben Hur." The next
are respectively Scarlet Letter." "OaI
Mutual Friend" Vanity FAR" "Lss
| Miserables." ''She," Edith Dayton
and PorteE's Human Intellect" Long
fellow. Shakespeare, Byron, Tehnyson
and Scott are the fsvoFite poets. Mrs.
Browning is the fsvorite poetess.
Twenty-nins men have been corre-
spondents Of the various papers during
tbs college course. The Times and the
Tribune ere the favorite New York
dAilies. Toe Tribune is the favorite
Chicago paper. Sixty-seven members
OF the class are X puolioaRs, 20 Demo
Gratis. - Independents. Prohibition
lets. the rest undecided; 40 are protec-
tionists aud 40 free-trB5ers; III men
wear moustaohes, or, at least, what by
courtesy may be called so; have full
DtAAQds JUG VI AuDn Ih1 never uAGu =
razor; Is wear glasses.
Tue brHnette style Of beauty has the
greatest attn cti0n for forty five men,
the blonde for sixteen, wblie the rest
prefer ANY style OF healthy out door
beauty" Eff y-thres we're hszsd 10
Freshmen year I'm a mild FORM" some
Vers pat 90 bed" One said be was
taken out" every night fer I've weeks.
| Fiffy-u:ne hsz.d in Turn when they
we're Sophmores.
One man has ten all around the
world, and has Travelled an aggregate of
60 0O0 miles. Oae man declares that
''the pleesan lest event Of his college
course was when be discovered hair on
his apper lip;" another, when be first
sat on the feno !" and still another,
sine Junior promenade"
Eighty one are church members, rep
rssentinR every Denomination. the
O Congregational, Episcopal and Presby-
terrain being best represented. One is q
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